Anyone who uses Chrome to surf the web must be on high alert and check they haven't downloaded and rogue browser extensions.

Attackers have started to exploit the very signals that users assume will keep them safe when it comes to add-ons to improve ...

A worrying new alert has been raised after the discovery that some Chrome extensions could be being used by cyber crooks.

Trusted extensions that had gained tons of positive reviews and installs over a long period of time suddenly turned malicious ...

Security researchers have discovered 11 malicious Google Chrome extensions that have collectively been downloaded over 1.7 ...

A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to ...

A new warning has emerged about the growing use of agentic AI in browsers. This raises serious security concerns for Chrome and Edge users.

Palo Alto, Calif., Jun. 30, 2025, CyberNewswire–Every security practitioner knows that employees are the weakest link in an ...

Browser extensions can be helpful, but the way they are built and distributed also makes them vulnerable to hacking and malicious attacks.

Security researchers from Domain Tools warn that there are hundreds of Chrome extensions stealing data and running malware on the sly, reports BleepingComputer. Many of the malicious extensions ...

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...

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